Safety headlight reflector



IR. G. HARRES SAFETY HEADLIGHT REFLECTOR April 7, 1936.

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ATTRNEY Patented Apr. 7, 1936 UNITED vSTATES PATENT oFElcE 1 Claim.

of lighting up a straight course or curves toeither side of this courseand in this manner there will be avoided headon or rear end collisionswith vehicles, the lamp throwing light so as to 'provide for roadsleading off from either side of' a straight course as well as throwingthe light on ditches or other obstructions and l" enabling an operatorof the vehicle to have clear vision of a person or persons standing at acurve or a sidewalkr and thus being able to avoid accidents and injuryto such person or persons. Another object 'of the invention is theprovision of a lamp of this character, wherein the reflector employed isof novel construction in that rays of light issued from a bulb will bedirected to the right and to the left with respect to a person seated ina vehicle as one beam of light will have its focal axis at an angle tothe focal axis of the reector and thus a straight light beam will'beissued from the lamp and angular light beams to either side of thestraight beam, the bulb employed in the lamp being also of novelconstruction.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a lamp of thischaracter, which is exr tremely simple in i'ts construction, thoroughlyreliable and efficient in its purposes, possesses but few partsassembled in a novel manner and certain of these parts being of novelconstruetion, strong, durable, `and inexpensive" to manufacture.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in thefeatures of construction,

combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fullydescribed, illustrated the preferred embodiment of the invention andpointed out in the claim hereunto appended In the accompanying drawing:Figure 1 is a horizontal sectional view through 50 vention.

sponding parts throughout the several views in` the drawing.

Referring to the drawing in detail, A desigfnates generally a portion ofa lamp housing or in the accompanying drawing, which discloses.

a lamp constructed in accordance with the in.

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casing yhaving at its front a removable lens or r glass 5 which is heldin place' in a conventional manner with respect to the casing A. In rearof the lens or glass 5 and within the housing or casing A is a reflector6 which may be of any suitable curvature to normally focus the rays oflight from a centrally located lamp so that the rays of light areprojected forwardly in substantial parallelism. i

This lamp l is an electric bulb and is of T- shape with the ends 8 ofits cross head disposed in a rearwardly diverging relation to each otherand protrude into facets or depressions 9 provided in the main reilector6. This bulb when electrically lighted will effect the issuance ofrays.of light at opposite sides of a central focal point angularly bothto the right and left of the forwardly directed light. In other Words, alight bearn will be disposed at the focal axis of the reflector andsupplemental thereto will be angularly disposed beams of light toopposite4 sides of the focal axis so that light Will be cast or thrownto either side and in the direction of a forward straight course, therebeing employed but a single bulb for this purpose.

In the illumination of the lamp an operator of a vehicle using thelatter will have clear view of everything in front of such vehicle andparticularly roads leading off to either side of the straight path oftravel of such vehicle, the lamp being a safety device to avoidcollisions and only for parking purposes. Y'

The reector 6 is preferably made from blown glass although it can bemolded of brass, the glass being nickled on the outside with the bulb 9placed internally.

What is claimed is:

VA light projector comprising a reflector having an axial central socketand a pair of .rear- Wardly projecting depressions, one on each side ofthe socket, which present an unbroken reflective surface, and a T-shapedbulb having the base thereof mounted in the socket and the outer endsthereof rounded and placed centrallyA in said depressions, and threelight sources within said bulb positioned respectively in the focus ofthe reflector and in the rounded ends of the T-s'haped bulb.

RICHARD G. HARRIS.

